by johannasr2 | Jan 16, 2025 | Education, Fibromyalgia, Health Care, My Illness, Psychology
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by johannasr2 | Nov 19, 2024 | Change, Family, Fibromyalgia, Parenting Adults, Psychology
The overall secret sauce to great holidays is planning. I want to say that there are some things that you can do and I am sure that there are. I also want to say that part of coping with the holidays is to understand that you will be very tired when it’s over....
by johannasr2 | Nov 10, 2024 | Fibromyalgia, Health Care, Psychology, Response to Trauma
Birate Doctoral by Wikimedia Commons This morning I watched a show about Israel’s healthcare system having found (after much experimentation) an effective treatment for TBI (traumatic brain injury)and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The show demonstrated how a...
by johannasr2 | Nov 4, 2024 | Childhood Abuse, Family, Incest, Psychology, Response to Trauma
Johanna Baynard Oct 26, 2024 Have you ever looked at someone’s school pictures and noticed a sequence of pictures where a dramatic change has occurred? It doesn’t look like a good change. The first picture is a laughing child and then the next picture is a not-child...
by johannasr2 | May 29, 2024 | Change, Family, Fibromyalgia, My Illness, Psychology
I learned to grieve early. But not about me. I learned to grieve about relationships, losing them. And the worst, losing people I loved. Sometimes, as difficult, was losing people I hated. I quickly lost people that I had spent lifetimes with. We all changed; we went...
by johannasr2 | Mar 22, 2024 | Feelings, Fibromyalgia, Love, Psychology
NGC1097 by ERIS Too much of my life in sadness. Living my life in fear of having sadness, running from one sadness to the next. There is this sadness that burns through me and doesn’t leave. I felt it this morning. I have had such rejection as cannot be measured it is...
